Recently, I threw out the first 60 pages of the novel I am currently working on. I had been determined to challenge myself by writing in the third person—I had spent the last ten years working on my first novel in the first person and I thought I was ready for something new and difficult. […] Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-21 08:48:34 UTC ]
T Kira Mahealani Madden is the author of the memoir Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls. She is still an amateur magician. Rowan Hisayo Buchanan is the author of Harmless Like You—the winner of The Authors’ Club First Novel Award and a Betty Trask Award. Her short work has appeared in... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-04-16 08:48:38 UTC ]
The first novel to be published by Stormzy’s new imprint #Merky Books, That Reminds Me by poet and podcaster Derek Owusu, has been longlisted for the £10,000 Desmond Elliott Prize for debuts. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-04-06 14:35:00 UTC ]
Julia Alvarez's "Afterlife" is her first novel for adults in 15 years. She talks about loss, fragmentation and "American Dirt." Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-04-02 22:24:09 UTC ]
“Then the Fish Swallowed Him,” the first novel in English by the Iranian-born Amir Ahmadi Arian, makes for unnerving reading. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-24 09:00:00 UTC ]
The sought-after first novel by former blogger Clare Pooley exposes the need for connection in the age of social media Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-20 07:25:26 UTC ]
“The Mountains Sing,” the first novel in English by the Vietnamese poet Nguyen Phan Que Mai, imagines her country’s traumatic 20th century through the stories of three generations of women. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-03-17 09:00:13 UTC ]
Mankell’s 1972 book, “The Rock Blaster,” now available in English, explores the struggles of a working-class man. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-05 17:00:00 UTC ]
The National Medal of Arts recipient reflects on the immigration crisis in Afterlife, her first novel for adults in almost 15 years. The post Julia Alvarez and the Female Book of Job appeared first on The Millions. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Millions | 2020-02-20 11:00:47 UTC ]
When Jokha al-Harthi and Marilyn Booth won the Man Booker International Prize last year, for Booth’s translation of Sayyidat al-Qamr (Celestial Bodies), many hurried to note that al-Harthi was the “first Omani woman writer” to have a book in English translation.While true, this may give the... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2020-02-19 10:26:57 UTC ]
Every week, the TBR pile grows a little bit more. It’s getting precarious. It’s taking up your whole nightstand. It’s threatening to crush you in your sleep. Well, what are you waiting for? Get cracking. What are you reading this week? FICTION Brandon Taylor, Real Life (Riverhead) Brandon... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-02-18 16:20:28 UTC ]
'The Resisters,' Gish Jen's first novel in nine years, imagines a class-based dystopian United States. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-02-06 15:00:56 UTC ]
He didn’t publish his first novel (which he illustrated himself) until he was 46. But his impact, as both a writer and an artist, has lasted. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2020-01-11 01:15:42 UTC ]
Such a Fun Age is Franzenesque in its interest in how we live now—but in a quieter register. Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2020-01-07 12:30:00 UTC ]
Sara Collins has won the Costa First Novel Award for her gothic romance, The Confessions of Frannie Langton (Viking), in a stellar year for début authors after three out of the five award categories were won by first-time writers. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-01-06 21:35:49 UTC ]
Huge congratulations to De’Shawn Charles Winslow, who last night took home the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for his acclaimed debut In West Mills. Winslow was presented with the prestigious prize—which has in previous years been awarded to Junot Diaz, Tiphanie Yanique, Viet Thanh Nguyen,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-11 17:00:27 UTC ]
Raymond AntrobusWho/ What inspired you to start writing? I never started writing poetry with the intention of writing books until publishers approached me. I was happy to write poems and travel and read the poems for audiences. I live poem by poem. The idea of a book of poems doesn’t really... Continue reading >> [ Source: British Council global | 2019-12-05 12:09:15 UTC ]
Irish poet Elaine Feeney’s "dazzlingly inventive" debut novel As You Were will be published by Harvill Secker following an auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-12-02 15:33:42 UTC ]
What was the first book you fell in love with? The Center for Fiction’s 2019 First Novel Prize authors weigh in. | Lit Hub “Disagree with my argument, beliefs, and my politics, but hands off my syntax!” Lore Segal’s love letter to editors. | Lit Hub “Among Larry’s many strengths as a writer,... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-02 11:30:22 UTC ]
We asked this year’s Center for Fiction First Novel Prize finalists about their earliest love affairs with reading. Meet them all at the Finalist Reading and Fête on December 9 at The Center for Fiction. * Chia-Chia Lin, author of The Unpassing on The Elves and the Shoemaker, Fran Hunia and... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2019-12-02 09:49:11 UTC ]